London is an exciting, vibrant & often noisy city but this busy metropolis also has a quiet side. Siobhan Wall encourages Londoners & visitors to the capital to wander away from the crowds & discover calm amid the hustle & bustle. This is a guide to over 100 quiet places to enjoy the art & culture that London has on offer, from small museums & light-filled galleries to hushed libraries, characterful bookshops & places to find beautifully designed, handcrafted objects. With evocative photographs & a short description for each location, including travel, access & contact details. Quiet London: Culture reveals hidden, tranquil places in one of the world`s liveliest cities. ...

London is an exciting, vibrant & often noisy city but this busy metropolis also has a quiet side. Siobhan Wall encourages Londoners & visitors to the capital to wander away from the crowds & discover calm amid the hustle & bustle. This is a guide to over 100 quiet places to enjoy a delicious meal or tasty snack, to be tempted by treats in gourmet delicatessens, to relax with a drink or enjoy afternoon tea in peaceful surroundings. With evocative photographs & a short description for each location, including travel, access & contact details. Quiet London: Food & Drink reveals hidden, tranquil places in one of the world`s liveliest cities. ...

London is an exciting, vibrant & often noisy city but this busy metropolis also has a quiet side. Siobhan Wall encourages Londoners & visitors to the capital to wander away from the crowds & discover calm amid the hustle & bustle. This is a guide to over 100 quiet corners in the city. There are peaceful gardens to enjoy, green spaces to wander through, places to rest, relax & recuperate, to meditate & invite mindful contemplation. With evocative photographs & a short description for each location, including travel, access & contact details. Quiet London: Quiet Corners reveals the hidden, tranquil places in one of the world`s liveliest cities. ...

Quiet London by Siobhan Wall showcases over 140 quiet places where you can meet, drink, eat, sleep, read, relax & recuperate in the capital. Discover unknown gems like atmospheric pubs & restaurant, peaceful & beautiful gardens or unusual museums & galleries & inviting shops. The book is organised in categories &

Includes:: museums, libraries, parks, gardens & nature reserves, places to relax & retreat centres, places of worship, small shops, restaurants & cafes, bookshops, places to have afternoon tea, galleries, pubs & wine bars, hotels & places to stay. Each entry is accompanied by an introductory text & an artistic mix of colour & black & white photographs, contact details including website, opening hours, the closest tube or train station & bus. Whether you looking for a quiet & gentle atmosphere for a special occasion or to take a break from the hassle & bustle of the city, Quiet London will guide you to the quietest places, in London.

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Paris is a beautiful city with astounding architecture & world-famous museums & restaurants. Because of its many attractions, however, it often feels as if there is nowhere to escape from the crowds. Siobhan Wall, author of Quiet Amsterdam & Quiet London, has sought out hidden, tranquil places so that Parisians can find some respite from their busy lives. She has gone in search of small museums & cafes so that visitors to the city can discover another, quieter side to this entrancing metropolis. From formal gardens to light-filled art galleries, chic boutiques, small tearooms & gourmet delicatessens, Quiet Paris has over one hundred & twenty tempting places to savour the quiet delights of this most seductive of cities. ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Street plan of Quimper, part of an extensive series covering French cities & towns from Blay-Foldex, the country’s largest, oldest & most experienced publisher of urban mapping. Blay plans include outer suburbs &, where appropriate, adjoining localities forming part of the urban agglomeration & provide brief descriptions of the town’s main sights, contact details for hotels & other places of interest, etc. The plans show one way streets, car parks & pedestrian zones. Important public buildings are clearly marked & identified. Blay street maps are usually double-sided & include an enlargement for the town centre & a street index with separate lists of “edifices publics”: main public buildings, places of worship, schools, sport facilities, stations, etc. Each of the outer suburbs or the adjoining localities, identified with its postcode, has a separate index. Many titles also provide a road map of the environs. All the text is in French only.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of Blay-Foldex street plans of French towns & cities please click on the series link – the series description also

Includes:: a comparison between Blay & IGN street plans.

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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Quimper – Lorient Michelin Centenary Map-Pack, a set of two maps showing the area at 1:200, 000: a current road map from 2014 plus a reproduction from Michelin’s very first series of regional maps published between 1910 & 1924. The combination of the two maps shows not only how this area & its road network have developed but also provides an interesting comparison of the changes in the cartographic presentation over the past 100 years. The maps cover the western part of the southern coastline of Brittany including Camaret-sur-Mer, Crozon, Douarnenez, Châteaulin, Pont-l’ Abbé, Concarneau & Quimperlé. The 2014 map is indexed & has a map legend in French only. To see the full list of the titles available in this series please click on the series link. ...